Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 26 12:55:08 EDT 1999 | Rob Fischer
I'm interested in hearing how many forum fans are interested in blatant advertising in the forum pages. At least Mike listed everyone instead of tooting his own horn. Some vendors support sites like these by buying banners and such. How effective
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 25 14:48:29 EDT 1999 | William
All, I am having a problem with joints being soft after SMT. Especially 25 mil and smaller parts. It seems as though you can slide the leads right off of the solder. It takes only about 30-40 oz. of compression at 45 deg. to move leads off of join
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 11 09:19:17 EST 2008 | davef
By the way you asked the question, we assume that by "reballing" you mean bumping, we should be able to figure that out: * Volume of the ball = ( pi*d^�)/6 = [355/113] *0.6*0.6*0.6]/6 = 0.11mm^3 * Volume of solder required = 2*volume of ball = 2*0.11
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 18 12:15:58 EDT 1998 | Bill Schreiber
Dear Maurice, Alcohol is a very "vertically oriented" cleaner. It cleans only a selected few types of solder paste. There are also numerous reports of fires and explosions associated with alcohol stencil cleaners. Plus, alcohol stencil cleaners us
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 12 10:32:59 EDT 2001 | Hussman
Wow, what a string of answers and nobody brought up the easiest way to eliminate solder balls. Yes, the paste being squished under the part does reflow and work it's way out to the side during reflow. I did a 5 week study on this (when I was a bori
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 14 14:02:45 EDT 1998 | Bill Schreiber
Dear Larry, I developed the ultrasonic cleaning process for Smart Sonic. It has developed into the most widely used stencil and misprinted PCB cleaning process worldwide. With that in mind, I offer some words of caution. "IT'S NOT THE ULTRASONICS!
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 01 14:35:59 EDT 1998 | Rich
| | | | | | Thanks Steve- | | | Here is the whole story: | | | | | | The solder balls are appearing all over, similar to a | | | splatter. They are relatively small. We are using H-Technologies | | | S-HQ no-clean solder paste. The stencil is
Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 24 18:45:06 EDT 2002 | jersbo
I have done experiments on small runs, with a few connectors and have had favorable results, I had apertures (oversized)made for the thru-hole connectors on our SMT stencil and hand inserted the connectors.. A few insufficient solders here and there
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 14 12:00:34 EST 1999 | Kris Wiederhold
We recently reduced our standard aperture reduction to aid in the reduction of solder on gold defects. Since this reduction in aperture size, we have been experiencing exposed copper at the end of the component pads. The heel and toe joints are per
Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 21 11:49:33 EST 2010 | remullis
1st the buyer shouldn't control the process based on cost. Let them buy stuff and stick to that. 2nd, I do think leveling in th HASL process is important. If you have high spots on pads for fine pitch your wiping away more of that aperture than othe
